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My Motorcycle will not charge my phone (most of the time)

Something is fishy. I have 2 tilts (mine and my wife's) and every time we go for a ride on my new bike my little charge light comes on but with in minutes of riding the abmer charge light on the phone goes out. The light for the car charger is on and the light on the HTC adapter (audio/power splitter) is on, but the phone stops charging. Sometimes after maybe 10mins it will kick back over to charging but not for a long time and then it is a gamble if it will stay charging (normally not).
Trouble Shooting I have tried:
- Different adapters
- Different Car Chargers
- Different socket/outlet
- I even switched phones with my wife today after mine was almost dead after 1/2 day of riding. her phone ont the otherhand stayed charging just fine all day and had the nice pretty "fully charge green light". After switching, she was able to charge my almost dead phone on her bike and I was able to DRAIN hers on my bike :-(
The only constant I can find is my BIKE. ARGH!!!
Note that after taking the phone off my bike and bringing it in the house and pluging it is to the wall charger it still took a few minutes for the amber light to come on. It is almost like the bike does something to the phone that makes the phone quit trying to charge.
One last thing to note, the phone not charging is only the case if I am using the PDA for either Music or GPS or both. If the pda is in Standby mode or OFF it will keep charging just fine.
Both Phones are AT&T Tilt
ROM HD_III WWE
Radio 1.65.17.56
Running:
SPB Pocket Plus
SPB Phone Plus
iGo 2006
Pocket Music
HTC Home disabled
SanDisk 8GB Micro SD card
We are about to head off on a 3,000mile road trip next month and I would really like this to not be an issue. If anyone has anything I can try please let me know.
Thanks
-D

heat related
I was having the same problem and I found out it's due to heat, when the battery becomes hot, the phone stops charging to protect it. when you ride your bike let the wind cool down your phone and you will see it will start charging again.

Exact, sounds like a heat problem. Avoid putting your Tilt in sunlight or at a places where heat from the motor will flow on it.
Maybe try comparing how the locations your Tilts are installed on your bike and your wife's regarding heat and find a place on yours that is suitable.
The phone will stop charging when the battery reaches 40-50°C, which is easy to reach in minutes in sunlight, and helped by the heat the phone generates itself when GPS is on.

Nice point! I have not confirmed your theory yet, but, I have a windscreen and my wife does not. I will move my mount to outside the wind screen and see if that helps. I live in AZ so it is very hot this time of year!
Thanks
-D

i have doubts on the heat theory -- i was in a road trip last weekend (from Bahrain to Saudi) and i used my ppc to navigate - i assure u that outside temp. was 48°C (118°F) and my kaiser was under direct sunlight.. it was functioning -- so based on experience i will reject the theory
i dont want to sound smarty but why dont u carry spare charged battery
when u rest charge both - just a thought
CrozB said:
Nice point! I have not confirmed your theory yet, but, I have a windscreen and my wife does not. I will move my mount to outside the wind screen and see if that helps. I live in AZ so it is very hot this time of year!
Thanks
-D
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jahrami said:
i have doubts on the heat theory -- i was in a road trip last weekend (from Bahrain to Saudi) and i used my ppc to navigate - i assure u that outside temp. was 48°C (118°F) and my kaiser was under direct sunlight.. it was functioning -- so based on experience i will reject the theory
i dont want to sound smarty but why dont u carry spare charged battery
when u rest charge both - just a thought
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That a legit question. The answer is, when running the GPS, Brightness at full, and all day road trips that take 8-12hrs I would need several batteries.
-D

maybe you should just get a Garmin-Motobike GPS instead
best wishes and have nice & safe trip
CrozB said:
That a legit question. The answer is, when running the GPS, Brightness at full, and all day road trips that take 8-12hrs I would need several batteries.
-D
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jahrami said:
maybe you should just get a Garmin-Motobike GPS instead
best wishes and have nice & safe trip
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+1
It's best to buy a cheap $100-$200 GPS then. Or buy lots of cheap batters from china. But you know the second solution won't work that well D:

To me it sounds more like your bike isn't putting enough juice out to charge the phone while the GPS and everything else is running. I'd check the output of her bike vs your bike.

jahrami said:
i have doubts on the heat theory -- i was in a road trip last weekend (from Bahrain to Saudi) and i used my ppc to navigate - i assure u that outside temp. was 48°C (118°F) and my kaiser was under direct sunlight.. it was functioning -- so based on experience i will reject the theory
i dont want to sound smarty but why dont u carry spare charged battery
when u rest charge both - just a thought
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I can certainly assure you that heat will prevent the kaiser from charging. There are times where i have to move my mount in front of the A/C just to cool the phone down so it will charge. I am not in a terribly hot climate and I also have 2 Tilts that will do the exact same thing. I would say that it gets to about 100F here without the A/C on here in maryland in the August month. Even inside if you were to run the GPS WIFI and tether to bluetooth..... I am SURE your phone will start getting warm after 20 minutes

Heat theory ended up being a bust. Quit charging after a few mins even in the open air. Rode to about 5 miles got gas (it started charging again while i was getting gas) started riding home and it stop by the time I had gotten back on the freeway.
But wait, GOOD NEWS!!!
I went back home and hooked up a new cord directly the positive and negative of the battery and sure enough it is working perfect. Guess that means I [email protected]#ked up the install of my outlets on the bike. I think it must be a bad ground because I ran the + directly to the battery.
Thanks for the help!
-D

Xperia get so warm/ heat up

hi
I am using Xperia, Made in Taiwan, I am facing the problem that my xperia get so warm, and its back cover get so heatup. Is there someone else also facing the same problem, and is there any possible solution to it?
Regards
Jade

mines gets hot around the camera area when im using gps

Same problem with mine. It gets hot when connecting to PC via USB also. What's wrong with this? You guy have some ideas?

Well i just want to hear from some experienced guys or with some more pplz, before i should take it to get it checked or replaced.
I just got my xperia 2 weeks back, but some time like using it normally, or having a long call, it get so hot that i cannot keep it on my EAR.
waiting for further reply
Regards
Jade

"It gets hot when connecting to PC via USB also"
well when connected to usb it would be charging the battery
and when batteries are being charged they get hot
mine get pretty hot when using the gps but not otherwise not too hot

It is perfectly normal. Wi-Fi, GPS and charging will heat the phone up. Chill .

40°C is normal... :O
It is a x1, not a Iphone 3GS

Mine does that too, after talking on the phone for a while and especially after charging.

After seeing the comments of orelsi, i am very much sure its normal for Xperia, as after browsing and surfing xda-developers for the last 2 weeks, i can see that he is very much informative and experienced users.
Thanks

Some ROMs make the phone so hot you can't even put it to your ear! So be careful which ROMs you flash. This happened to me with the Energy ROM, for example... (not the current version).

Dock wont charge.....

Hello all...Long time lurker, not alot of posts....Yes I searched. I sent in my N1 to HTC for alot of Dropped calls and overheating. Got new phone back and my dock wont charge the phone. Is there a setting I missed? Is it because of Froyo FRF91 is what I have? Does anyone else have this issue? I saw a guys car charger wont charge of Froyo....If i plug it in directly to the USB it will charge fine. Thanks in advance.

Wiggle it in the dock a bit, or hold it down.
The dock really sucks imho. I hate him. I can have it working fine, I get a txt that vibrates and it disconnects. Heck the phone fell off the dock one time cuz of vibrate.

Ive tried all of the above. And Im not crazy about the dock Either but I was about to get the car dock as well and .....Hell I paid 50 bucks for this thing!

I'm not a fan of the desktop dock either. I find I hit the power button to put it to sleep and as I take my hand away it shifts in the dock and wakes up again.
That said, the car dock is quite good. Holds the phone very solid yet is easy to get the phone in/out.
The built-in bluetooth speakerphone works fine ... sounds like a speaker phone but it works. Another feature is that it holds the phone in a way that leaves the camera pointing at the road ahead ... want to record that idiot driver ahead of you just fire up the camera.
The only issue I've had is that when using navigation in the hot sun while the battery is charging it has overheated a couple of times (i.e. rebooted without warning). Now I disconnect the charger unless it is needed and have not had the issue.
P.S. Neither dock work with cases ... probably fine with the skins though.

Nexus one car dock - problematic?

So I was going to purchase the official htc car dock and I came across problems such as the phone failing to save the dock settings and overheating when placed in the car dock.
Can anyone whose has the dock please confirm if this is true? Does cyanogenmod allows the dock settings to be saved?

Umm..Since the Google store Closed today, where are you intending on buying the dock?
Also Most Phones will get hot when charging and using GPS Navigation and the same time, my G1 overheated and N1 does get warm.
Its becuase the Battery is being drained real fast, and trying to charged simulatneously.
Why don't they make some sort of circuit, that could bypass charging the batt. temporialy and run the phone off ac?

I have found that when charging, using GPS / Navigation and in the hot sun the N1 will get very hot. In fact I've had two sudden reboots which I believe were overheating.
It works fine if you only plug in the charger for short periods of time ... which is enough to keep it going.
The BT speakerphone worked well with the stock FroYo but I think there may be issues with CM6.0 RTM. The BT connects but I've only had a couple of calls and I am not sure if it was using the N1's speakerphone or the car mount's speakerphone.

I have had one or two calls not use the dock for audio and instead use the built in speaker, but other than that it's great. The phone gets warm, but so does using the wall charger that came with the phone. It has never overheated.
But as mentioned before, unless you have already purchased the dock you are probably out of luck. I don't know where you could buy one now that the store is closed.

The N1 has a bug whereas sometimes when it's plugged in being charged, the touch screen goes wacky and becomes either unresponsive or the touch positions are way off. I've found that simply pressing the top button to turn the screen off then back on fixes it right away.
This is probably the issue you're been reading about. That aside the dock is great and have no qualms recommending it.

wrinklefree said:
The N1 has a bug whereas sometimes when it's plugged in being charged, the touch screen goes wacky and becomes either unresponsive or the touch positions are way off. I've found that simply pressing the top button to turn the screen off then back on fixes it right away.
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i've had that too, but not when it was docked, i was playing skies of glory and downloading something via 3G in the background, and it was pretty hot outside, so it did the same thing..
about the car dock, the phone does get hot, but it never failed me inside the car dock, you can also turn your A/C to go to the windscreen to keep it a bit cooler.
With Eclair i had the problem that when it was in the dock and i got a call it never actually used the dock for the phone call, now in Froyo that works just fine, i get a call, the trackball flashes blue and i can hear and talk through the dock audio.
It's definetly worth buying, i didn't have any major issues with it yet!

wrinklefree said:
The N1 has a bug whereas sometimes when it's plugged in being charged, the touch screen goes wacky and becomes either unresponsive or the touch positions are way off. I've found that simply pressing the top button to turn the screen off then back on fixes it right away.
This is probably the issue you're been reading about. That aside the dock is great and have no qualms recommending it.
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I have this problem too. Do all n1s have this? I was about to return mine.

AC charger causing touchscreen interference

Just wondering, is anyone else experiencing issues like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhk0Wc0uMoM
My AC charger might be bad (or there might be a lot of EMI in my room).
I swapped to my Nokia N900's charger and the problems went away, so it might not be my phone.
I'm going to try using my N900's charger on this phone and see if the issue crops up again.
Is this happening to anyone else?

try getting a new charger first. i have the same problem with my thunderbolt and stratosphere using their own chargers, but no issues with a droid 1 charger.
also my thunderbolt's LTE connection got worse over time and now it can barely hold an LTE connection at all. it also has trouble connecting to LTE unless i'm very close to the tower. stratosphere works fine, so i wonder if the charger messed up the phone.

I have a POS charger I bought off E-Bay...
If I lay my Vivid on top of the coiled up wire while everything is plugged in the phone will actually start hitting buttons and actions randomly. It's violent enough to unlock itself and it even sent a one letter SMS to a friend
I think cheap shielding in the cable is allowing current to flow around the phone and the touchscreen triggers from it. If I use a quality charger then no issues...